The couple are on tour together and they found time to release and entire album together. And they found time to shoot the video at the preeminent museum of the world, the Louvre. And their director filmed black imagery — there are really only a few — in the artworks. Rolling Stone comments on the music video: “So Beyoncé and Jay-Z set about interjecting blackness into a space that has never placed much value on it, claiming one of the centerpieces of European culture with gleeful defiance.” Yeah, that part.

The New York Times calls the album itself a “victory lap” for the couple who’s “state of the union is strong.” Strong indeed.